What went wrong?

I found it the easiest in the series

Nothing. It was perfect

the series overstayed it's happiness after demon souls and dark souls 1

Miyazaki backstabbed B team to ensure that Bloodborne won't be outshined

>Kojima got his hands on it
It all makes sense now

Biggest lighting downgrade in the history of gaming.

Soul memory
Awful hit boxes
Adaptability stat
Disjointed level design
Repetitive enemies/bosses
Unmemorable npcs & lore

more frustrating than fun
and the weapons don't feel like they have weight or impact, but that's in part due to the animations

rent free

Consoles.

ADP
Lack of enemy variety
Uninteresting areas

I replayed DaS2 (not SotFS) recently to 100% it, but man my opinion has gone down overtime. The enemy variety mixed with the bland uninteresting areas makes it a real drag. I do like the general theme and atmosphere of the game, but the game itself was a bit lacking.

Like going thru Drangleic Castle. Theres barely any furnishings, its just a dull grey the whole way thru, acting like more of a dungeon than a castle of a great leader.

I do wish they brought powerstancing to DaS3 though.

Attached: me.png (500x360, 88K)

Pretty much everything except build variety and a few cool things like power stancing and bonfire ascetics. Everything else is hot garbage.

Not that much, but people wanted a shallow action adventure experience like DS3 so it didn't resonate with many players.

good, because DaS3 was far more engaging than that slog of a sequel

Story in Dark Souls is like story in porn.

It only happens at the beginning and then you have to cobble together what happened by the description on the used condoms and vibrators laying around but it still doesn't make any sense to some so they look at vids by VaatiVagina who then tells them that the mouthful of cum has a deeper meaning and is a metaphor for the perverse truth and realisation about the depraved world we're in that the protag has to swallow?

Attached: 1559675181566.jpg (225x225, 6K)

The lighting. Other than that, nothing. Still the highest rated Souls game.

And he still failed

>Story
All these weebs are only getting their "story" from whatever vaatividya tells them anyways so that's moot.

Attached: 1543727196804.gif (202x360, 1.84M)

he succeeded
DaS2 is boring trash
no souls game is can be ever good without him at the helm

You know what else is high rated? Dragon Age 2.

>some really shitty bosses and enemy placement
>most 'unfair' of the souls games because of that
>soul memory
but it also did some stuff pretty well
>nice environments
>good build variety
>belltower multiplayer
>a reason to go into NG+ or to burn ascetics

>>nice environments

Somehow they went a step backwards with fights. Enemy tracking is definition of artificial difficulty; instead of making enemies smarter in a fight, they just give them the ability to spin 180 mid-swing. And then, instead of making individual enemies smarter, they just made every encounter an ambush; not artificial difficulty but still boring and predictable by the 5th hour

>implying having boxes sticking out of buildings, bitmap forests or half the level geometry missing isn't peak AESTHETIC

Attached: 20190604201703_1.jpg (1920x1080, 757K)

they at least tried to be different from DaS1 and then 3

>well at least he TRIED to fly off that tall building before he splattered into mist on the ground

Lmao, I never even realized this. The prison cells in that room literally just fucking stick out like that?
Fucking pathetic LMAO!

Attached: valle_lmao.jpg (208x242, 7K)

What are your hopes for Dark Souls 4?

There won't be Dark Souls 4.
3 closes the cycle nicely.

yep

Attached: QUALITY.jpg (837x859, 116K)

And you know what's also great about the place?
Its name, Old Akellare, makes no sense and is a (yet another) massive translation error.
The original Japanese name is something along the lines of "the place where the witch was".

Attached: 20190521211235_1.jpg (1920x1080, 162K)